Mammoth meals helped early tribes thrive

REGULAR meals of mammoth meat helped some early human tribes to expand more quickly than their largely vegetarian contemporaries, according to a genetic study.

Human populations in east Asia about 30,000 years ago developed at dramatically different rates, following a pattern that appears to reflect the availability of mammoths and other large game.

In the part of the region covering what is now northern China, Mongolia and southern Siberia, vast plains teemed with mammals such as mammoths, mastodons and woolly rhinoceroses and the number of early human beings grew between 34,000 and 20,000 years ago.

Further south, where the terrain was covered in thick forest, the population expansion began much later - between 18,000 and 12,000 years ago.

Chris Tyler-Smith, of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridgeshire, who led the research, said: "The only robust explanation for the early success of the northern populations is that they enjoyed a better and richer diet: they thrived on mammoths and other large animals."

A diet rich in mammoth meat would have improved overall nutrition, giving people a ready source of protein and fat that would have been invaluable during the last ice age, Dr Tyler-Smith said.

"The mammoths' value would not just have been for food: they would also have provided materials such as skins and bones for use in clothing, shelter and toolmaking.""

The 40,000 year old figure has something to do with the breakdown of DNA components, so it's not just a figure thrown out there. Wanna see what the dwarf humans in the eastern Indian Ocean looked like? Neanderthals? If you clone another species of primate, is that considered human rights advocation? It's not a matter of when, .....You'll see. Here's something scary - Part of the research I did came across a rhesus monkey named ANDi (iDNA backwards). This monkey has the protein gene inserted into it's strand that makes the jellyfish glow. The phosphorescence is created by running a black light across his body, which in turn makes him shimmer like a thousand little fiber optic cables. Look it up,...freaky. He's a few years old now. Another interesting one is that the scientists have taken the protein gene out of several spiders that causes the creation of spider webs, implanted them into the mammary glands of goats and are mass producing spider silk from the milk created.( Spider webs have the highest tensile strength of anything that light)They're being used for sutures and body armor. Another freaky one is that the scientists have discovered the gene that makes the head of a rat, and have created cloned headless rats. Why would anyone want to do this, you may ask? Think about it, if you could clone a headless human, there wouldn't be any human consciousness, and therefor nobody would would be able to argue the whole human rights cloning thing, would they? Protein genes are easy to implant into any genetic structure. Wanna swim faster? Web feet are an example. I think I remember gills being a protein gene, but that seems a little far fetched. They could make us glow though,and learn to express ourselves with it. Hell, they already have fish for sell that change color to identify contaminants in the water, pH, and temperature. That just started this year. Look these up, it'll give you goosebumps. After that, you won't think cloning a mammoth is such a far out thing to do.

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